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sidebar_navigation:
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title: Forums
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priority: 820
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description: Create and manage a forum in OpenProject
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robots: index, follow
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keywords: forum
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# Forums
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In the forum in OpenProject you can discuss topics in a project with the team: post questions, comment on it and document answers.
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<div class="glossary"> **Forum** is defined as a module used to display forums and forum entries. The module has to be activated in the project settings and a forum has to be created in the forums tab in the project settings to be displayed in the side navigation.</div>
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| Feature | Documentation for |
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| [Open a forum](#open-a-forum) | How to open an existing forum? |
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| [Create a new message](#create-a-new-message-in-a-forum) | How to create a new message in a forum? |
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| [Reply to a message](#reply-to-a-forum-message) | How to add a reply to an existing forum message? |
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| [Watch a forum](#watch-a-frum) | How to keep informed about changes in a forum, e.g. new messages or replies? |
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| [Edit a forum message](#edit-a-forum-message) | How to edit a message in a forum? |
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| [Delete a forum message](#delete-a-forum-message) | How to delete a message within a forum? |
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| [Create a new forum](#create-a-new-forum) | How to create a new forum? |
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| Manage forums | How to sort, edit or delete a forum? |
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## Open a forum
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To work in the forum in OpenProject, select the menu item **Forums** in the project navigation.
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You will get a list of all existing forums within a project as well as a short description for it, the number of topics, messages as well as the last message within one forum.
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Click on the Forum title to open an existing forum.
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## Create a new message in a forum
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To **add a new message** within an existing forum, click the green **+ Message** button on the top right of the selected forum.
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Enter the **subject of the message**.
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You can choose whether the message should be **Sticky**. A sticky message always appears on top of the selected forum.
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Select if a message should be **Locked**. Then it can no longer be edited or commented by the project team.
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Enter a description which will then appears next to the message title in the forum. You can add a file if needed.
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Click the blue **Create** button to create the new message for this forum.
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The **new forum message has been created**.
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## Reply to a forum message
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To add a **reply to an existing message** in a forum, click on the Subject in order to open the message.
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Click the blue **Reply** button underneath the forum message.
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Enter your **Message content** what you want to add as a reply to the existing message.
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You can choose to also **add a file** if needed.
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Click the blue **Submit** button in order to save your reply message.
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The reply has been added under the existing forum message.
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## Watch a forum
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To keep informed about changes in a forum, e.g. new messages or new replies, you can add yourself as a **Watcher** of a forum.
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[Open an existing forum](#open-a-forum) from the list.
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You will get a list of all messages within this forum.
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Click the **Watch** icon in the top right corner of the forum.
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You will then be notified via e-mail according to your [e-mail notifications](/getting-started/my-account/#email-notifications) about new massages and replies in a forum.
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The icon will then change to Unwatch.
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### Watch a message
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If you watch a forum you will automatically watch all messages within this forum. Alternatively, you can also **watch only certain messages** within a forum where you want to be informed about changes.
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This way, you select the message first by clicking on the subject, and then click the Watch button on the top right corner in the message details.
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## Unwatch a forum
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To unwatch a forum in order to not be informed via e-mail about new messages and replies in a forum, click the **Unwatch button** on the top right of the forum.
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### Unwatch a message
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The same applys to **unwatch a message**. Just select the message first which you do not want to watch any longerand click the **Unwatch** button.
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## Edit a forum message
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To **edit a message in a forum** select the message from the forum and in the message details click the **Edit** button in the top right corner of the message.
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The message details will then be opened. You can make your changes and click the **blue Save button**.
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## Delete a forum message
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To **delete a message in a forum**, select the message which you want to delete and press the **Delete** button in the top right corner of the message details.
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## Create a new forum
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To create a new forum in your project, navigate to -> *Forums* and click the green **+ Forum** button.
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Enter a name and description for the new forum. Press the blue **Create** button so save the new forum.
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## Manage forums
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If you wan to change the order of the forums in your project, want to edit a forum, or delete a form, go to the -> *Forums* overview list in your project.
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1. Click the **arrows (up or down) to change the order** of the forums and sort them differently in the forum list in your project.
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2. Click the **edit icon to change the name or description** of your form.
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3. Click the delete icon to **delete a forum** from your project.
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